Help the Poor

On Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” and Fortune’s Wheel Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share  John Wesley Harding may have been Bob Dylan’s most highly anticipated album ever. Released in 1967 at the end of twenty months of public silence that included a motorcycle crash, it was also the most stylistically unexpected work of Dylan’s career. The album featured

Lessons Gleaned from Sandy

Why do we waste our time with charity when we could be doing justice?  by Sarah Seltzer Share  During the bitter cold weeks that came in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the stark income divide in New York City was held to the light of media scrutiny as it hadn’t been for years. Certainly, nature

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Ten Things You Share When You Share Food

A list of what is really at stake at the dinner table by Elissa Strauss             Over dinner the other night my husband told me about a slightly awkward business lunch he had that day. He was out with some higher-ups from a big financial firm at one of Manhattan’s

How to Really Help the Poor

A Commentary on Leviticus 19 by Ruby Namdar Share 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard;

Friends: An Essay

A writer searches for someone to eat with by Diana Spechler   Our first night in town, we went out for sushi. When we sat at the bar, the chef introduced himself and showed us his knife. His name was Jack. His knife was beautiful, sharp, the blade engraved with Japanese letters. Or maybe they